| 单词 | welsh uncle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh uncle Welsh uncle n. now rare a male first cousin of a person's parent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > cousin > [noun] > parent's first cousin Welsh uncle1747 Welsh aunt1820 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 210 Aeddon, who was welsh-uncle to Rydderch, made his escape to the Isle of Man. 1820 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 194 There is no room here to tell you about your little Welsh uncles, Alfred and Southey, nor about your little Welsh aunt, Georgiana. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 645 A ‘Welsh uncle’, that is the first cousin of a parent. 1906 E. Lawless Bk. Gilly iv. 41 He stood to the latter in a relationship sometimes described as that of a Welshuncle. 1958 N. J. Jacobs Naming-day in Eden ix. 66 A Welsh uncle [is] no uncle at all but the first cousin of a parent. < as lemmas |
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